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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Librarian ask the Caretaker in the Power Station chapter?
(a) Whether he gets along with the Gatekeeper.
(b) Whether he gets along with the others.
(c) Whether he's seen an older woman around the Power Station.
(d) Whether he misses going into the Town.

2. Why doesn't the Librarian want the narrator to go to the Power Station?
(a) She's never been there before.
(b) She's heard the Power Station is dangerous.
(c) It's in the Woods.
(d) She's heard the Caretaker is dangerous.

3. What does the narrator do with the skull at the end of Chapter 37?
(a) He leaves it at the subway station.
(b) He sends it to the chubby girl.
(c) He gives it to the librarian as a gift.
(d) He disposes of it.

4. What does the narrator immediately notice when he returns to his apartment?
(a) The apartment has been cleaned up.
(b) The walls have been vandalized.
(c) The apartment is in worse shape than when he left.
(d) The television is gone.

5. What book does the narrator quote when the librarian asks how he sees himself?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) Anna Karenina.
(c) The Brothers Karamazov.
(d) War and Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Librarian compare looking for her mind to?

2. What compliment does the narrator make the librarian?

3. What does the Caretaker provide as part of lunch?

4. What escape does the Professor offer for the dilemma the narrator is faced with?

5. What is the last thing the shadow tells the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which situation does the narrator define as "despair" in Chapter 33?

2. Why does the narrator say looking for the Librarian's mind is not like looking for raindrops?

3. How does the Caretaker of the Power Station feel about the musical instruments?

4. Describe how the narrator's shadow is living at the beginning of Chapter 32.

5. How does the narrator whistling "I Go to Pieces" in Chapter 29 relate to the overall storyline?

6. Explain the importance of belief as described in Chapter 34.

7. Why does the librarian wake the narrator up in the middle of the night at the beginning of Chapter 37? Explain what happens and how the librarian and narrator react.

8. What does the chubby girl plan to do once the narrator loses consciousness, and why?

9. Given what the narrator tells his shadow about why he plans to stay, what do you think he plans to do with his time in the Town?

10. Explain what the Professor says is a way out of the situation the narrator finds himself in in Chapter 27 and why it would work.

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